Improvement in table-leaf supports



G. E. EBERHART.

Improvement in Table-Leaf Supports.

'No. 131,054. Patented sep.a,1a72.

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GEORGE E. EBERHART, OF CEDAR FALLS, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HISRIGHT TO PHILIP C. HALL, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TABLE-LEAF supporti-rs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,054, datedSeptember 3, 1872.'

Specification describing certain Improvements in a Table-Leaf Support,invented by GEORGE E. EBERHART, of Cedar Falls, Black Hawk county, Stateof Iowa.

My invention is the combination'of the several parts in such a manner asto form a selflocking table-leaf support. l

Figure 1 is a side view of the support em! bodying my invention as it isafter being put together to apply to the table.

A shows the long arm of the support passing under the table and fastenedto the center of the table by a box-hinge, E, and at the other end tothe double crooked knee B by a hinge. C is a stirrup or lock fastened bya hinge to the leaf of the table, and by a slot passing over a crookedknee. B is a crooked knee attached to arm A by a hinge, and to thetable-leaf by box-hinge D. yThe stirrup or look C, when the leaf israised, by its own Weight drops below the knee in B, and becomesfastened. To close the leaf the stirrup is raised over the knee when theleaf Will fall. What I claim as my invention in table-leaf support, isvThe combination of the arm A, the knee B, the stirrup C, and box-hingesD and E, as shown and described. .e

GEORGE E. EBERHART. Witnesses:

W. MALLAN, S. B. WILLIAMS.

